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J _----- Mad i hee i A ------------ ; 8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, August 9, 1988 Yesterday's Letters Extend recycling areas Memories (From page 7) The Cartwright Agricultural Society has a new added attrac- tion at the Blackstock Fair this year. There will be a beauty con- test for "Cartwright Summer Queen." Six fighting Mexican bulls have been cleared out of Mexico and are now crossing the States on their way to Lindsay, On- tario, for the bullfights to be held August 22 and 23. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 8, 1963 The Port Perry High School Candidate with the highest number of aggregate marks in the Ontario Departmental Grade 13 examinations is Bonnie Wallace with an average of 82.9. Se- cond is Bruce Ballinger with 82.7. Mrs. Ambrose Watson and John of Utica, are visiting relatives in B.C. The Murphy family held a get-together at Cartwright Com- munity Park on Sunday. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 8, 1968 Through the passing of a by-law, the Port Perry Council in- tends to have four streets east of Water Street closed to provide additional park facilities along the Scugog Waterfront. These streets include Shanley, Casimir, Mary and Queen. Over 300 people attended the Holstein Twilight Show, held last week on the farm on Neil Malcolm, Burketon. The president of Blackstock Fair Board, Glen Larmer and vice president V. Malcolm, admire a new sign erected at the east entrance for the Village of Blackstock. Six students at Port Perry High School were named as On- tario Scholars for the past school year. They include: Timothy Brunton, Brigette Alzner, Marten Den Boer, Bonnie Cawker, Risa Stein, and Lois Milne. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, August 9, 1978 A Police investigation is continuing into a break-in at Port Perry Pharmacy last week which netted close to $1000 worth of merchandise including a small quantity of narcotic drugs. The possibility of a strike by production workers at Flam- ingo Pastries in Port Perry has not been ruled out following a meeting between union and management that failed to make any progress towards a new contract. Klaus and Cecilia Thaeter, of R.R. 3, Port Perry have recent- ly been awarded a Personal Sales Award plaque by Geln & Eleanor Dawson. Direct Distributors of Amway products. Dr. George Jackson, Port Perry recently made the newspaper in the U.S.A. when he attended the 70th State Amateur golf tournament at the Kittansett Club. Mr. Jackson, 74, walked all but two of the 36 holes with his son Stan who was competing in the tournament. To The Editor: Re: "Region Moves to Deal with Garbage" August 3 issue, Port Perry Star. I would like to suggest that one step would be to extend the access to the recycling programme. For the past month we have been taking our cans, bottles and newspapers to the bins at the dump on Regional Road 8; and are pleased to say that we are now putting out on the curb ap- proximately 50 percent less trash every week. Because we are outside the recycling pick-up area we have to take the material to the dump during its limited (to a working person) hours on Saturday mornings. If the pick-up area is not going to be enlarged I think there should be more bins, in locations where Letters (From page 7) be ONE WAY from Queen Street, not exit onto Queen Street. People are concerned about children, mothers with a child in a stroller and senior citizens passing on the sidewalks. I must agree that this situation is an accident waiting to happen, also this person was most insistent that the Port Perry Star newspaper should do something about it. They could not unders- tand that only they and their fellow concerned citizens can do anything about it - by complain- ing long, loud and often to the powers that be until something finally gets done. Roy Walker Smith, Port Perry, Ontario. people have more access. In some communities d see the bins in malls or school parking lots where the public can make better use of them at a wider range of hours. cleif it is made more convenient. Yours sincerely, Beth Potter, Prince Albert, Ont. "(where there is no garbage or recycling pick-up by the I'm sure more people willrecy- pownship) Viewpoint by John B. McClelland (From page 7) landed smack in the middle of Red Square. The Soviets of course were red-faced and furious that their air defense systems had been breached by a teen-age pilot. They put him on trial and sentenced him to four years in a labour camp. As it turned out, he didn't have to freeze in Siberia chopping firewood, but was allowed to serve his time in a prison near Moscow. Anyway, the Soviets, in the spirit of Glasnost, let him go after 14 months. No doubt the youngster will return home and make a bundle selling his story to the highest bidder. In my opinion, he should have been handed ten years and made to serve right to the last minute. Young Mr. Rust might very well have touched off World War 3 with his fool- ish prank. Had the Soviets not been asleep at the switch the night he flew over their territory, they most likely would fired first and answered questions later. That might have touched off a full military alert in Western Europe. When the Soviets and NATO go on full alert with so many fingers twitching ner- vously close to the "buttons," | get a trifle nervous. Herr Rust may never know just how close he may have come to triggering a major shoot-out. Imagine, if you will, how the Yanks would react if some Cuban teen-ager flew a light plane around the White House and landed on the front awn. What's really frightening about this entire incident, aside from the possible implications, is the fact that some other adventurer" might try to duplicate the stunt. Trifling with the sensitive air defense systems of a major nuclear super power is a deadly serious matter, one that in my opinion, should be dealt with in an equally serious fashion. Random Jottings by J. Peter Hvidsten Holidays....aren't they just great? To borrow a famous old saying, Bah, Humbug! Holidays are one the worst things ever conceived by man (or woman). I'm really overstating my dislike for holidays con- siderably, because deep down, | truly believe holi- days are great, and everyone deserves to have some time when they can relax and forget about the treadmill of life. Although | do appreciate holidays, and the staff here at the Star are most deserving of their holi- days, | can't say that | enjoy the summer months when there is never at full staff to contend with the day to day duties. For myself, the worst person to go on holidays is Annabell, the Star's "Jack of all trades". You see, when Annabell leaves on vacation, it is left up to me to fill in on her many production jobs on Mondays, and it never seems you appreciate how much a per- son does, until you have to do it all yourself. Last week was Annabells first week of vacation, so Monday my day started at 6:30 a.m. | started about an hour earlier than usual because | didn't want to get behind the "eight ball" so to speak; so came in early to get some things organized before the interruptions started. The morning actually progressed reasonably well, then after lunch | began to mix the chemicals for our processor and get things ready in the dark- room to 'shoot' our page negatives. This job | only do if Annabell is away on holidays, or is sick, and | can honestly say that it was the first time | had worked in the darkroom at this capacity in close to a year. After turning the processor on, | began to mix the chemicals and pour them into their respective containers under the machine. There are two chemicals need for this proceedure, one called a developer (no explanation needed) and the other we simply call "Fix". This chemical preserves the image on a negative once there has been an expo- sure. After pouring them into their containers, | 'shot' a page (like taking a picture of the page) and ran it through the processor to make sure everthing was working properly before doing any further pages. When it came out the other end a few minutes later, it appeared to be of good contrast, and clarity so | was ready to begin the job of shooting the re- maining 50 negatives. After about six negatives had gone through the machine | noticed a foul, chemical smell in the room, and | realized immediately what had happened. | had poured the developer into the fix container, and vice versus. The smell from the two chemicals mixing causes an unpleasant and dangerous odour so | turned on the exhaust fan and shut the proces- sor down. About an hour later, after draining the tanks in the processor, and re-filling them with the proper chemicals | was ready to get underway again. The rest of the afternoon went fairly well, and we man- aged to finish the paper up by about 10:00 p.m. that evening. The following day, after mailing out our 6,500 copies of the Star, | was working in the backshop when one of the office staff came back with a per- plexed look on her face. "We've just had a call from one of the real estate agents, who want to know why their ad isn't in the paper?", she said. Startled, | look through the paper and sure enough the Country Lane ad was missing. | knew it had been brought in, because | processed the photographs and pasted the ad up myself. Sifting through some of the previous days work, | found their ad completed and ready to go, but shuffled under some old page layouts. Unfortunately in this business, there is little can be done once the paper is printed, until the follow- ing issue. A simple "we're sorry for the error" just doesn't seem enough in a situation like this, but there is little else can be said or done. At any rate, | spoke with one of the Country Lane owners the following day, made my apologies explaining | could not blame the missed ad on any- one but myself, and promised to try and make up the error in some way in the future. Thank goodness there are understanding peo- ple (not necessarily happy, but understanding) in this community, or | might be sitting in our old Eng- lish "stocks" out front of Country Lane Real Estate for the next few days.